, help us." and i was able to grab a hold of the desk and pull it closer to me, and then was able to grab them one by one, and we were able to get them over. and then there was one more lady, and we got her over, too. >> pelley: in two hours, night had fallen. you were in the total darkness, in the freezing cold with the seawater all around you for four hours, five hours? >> chumreonlert: about six hours. >> pelley: wondering when the rescuers would come. >> chumreonlert: yeah. ( sigh ) and then the aftershocks would come, and everyone would huddle down together and, like, afraid again. >> pelley: what were you saying to the children over that long dark night? >> chumreonlert: i just kept saying, "hang in there, hang in there," and just, like, tried to give them a little smile, make them smile a little bit. >> pelley: in a wrecked house nearby, we found a child rescued from the gym, six-year-old sayna suzuki, in her grandmother's arms. it came all the way up to here? she told us, "the water came